Lyrics

My pocket book was empty My heart was full of pain 10,000 miles a-way from home Bumming a railroad train Standing on the platform Smoking a cheap cigar And listening for the next freight train That carried an empty car When I got off at Danville I got stuck on the Danville girl You can bet your life she was out of sight She wore those Danville pearls Took me in her kitchen And treated me nice and kind And she got me in the notion Of bumming all the time Well she wore her hair on the back of her head Like high tone people all do But the very next train coming down the line I bid my girl adieu I pulled my cap down over my eyes Walked down to the track And caught the very next empty car And never did look back